Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large measure is sure to show itself in their organized life. Thus the American people has thoroughly organized popular politics, and the English people society. The Hebrews in like manner organized their religion. Any division of the history of this organization into periods must be understood as only roughly correct. A twofold classification seems however justified by the fact that in Israel, as elsewhere, theology grew up in advance of anthropology. The books of the Old Testament written before and during the exile treat mainly of God; the later books aim to define and explain the position...
...some particular. b. They loose their political influence by exerting it in too many directions. c. They eventually gain the enmity of both parties and are tolerated only in the times of necessity. d. They way to reform a party is to stay in it and help it to correct its mistakes. Pamphlets on campaign...
...action or of incident, but rather one of character delineation. The different moods of the hero are vividly drawn, and although the scene with the other principal character-the heroine-does not seem to have the force it should possess, the story as a whole gives a clear and correct picture of one of a class of men who, as the author says, "were prominent at Harvard a decade...
...means that such men, while they are students, must be passed by the director of the Heminway Gymnasium before they can represent their other association in a public contest. It is a rule which we shall not attempt to criticize; but we suspect that, if our interpretation is correct, it will bring about many perplexing cases. Every student ought to know these rules; if they are just, then obey them without further words; if they are unjust, a general protest will be very effective...
President Eliot had heard nothing of the bequest late yesterday afternoon, but there seems no doubt that the Advertiser's account is correct...